bobbishly adj.
healthily, cheerily; thus tolbobbishly, elision of tolerably + bobbishly.
![]() | Life (1896) 232/2: The book has gone off here very bobbishly . | letter 12 Jan. in Lockhart|
![]() | Huddersfield Chron. 16 Oct. 3/1: The poet cocketh his nose, and talketh bobbishly. | |
![]() | ‘’Arry to the Front!’ in Punch 9 Mar. 100/2: Yours tolbobbishly, ’Arry. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 16 May 10/2: If she did – well, she’d still be a frost. / But I don’ t think there’s much chance of that, / For we’d get all the parsons together, / From Peter to old Biship Barry, / And reel off a prayer for bad weather / And success to yours, bobbishly, / ’Arry. | |
![]() | ‘’Arry on the Elections’ in Punch 27 July 39/1: Yours tolbobbishly, ’Arry. | |
![]() | Lichfield Mercury 17 Sept. 7/1: ‘How goes Mrs Gastrell?’ ‘Oh, bobbishly, sir’. |